Hockney Portrait Found

The Guardian reports on this week’s sale of drawings in Dorchester that includes a David Hockney portrait:

The drawing of Peter Schlesinger, the young art student who in the 1960s became Hockney’s lover and who is the naked figure in most of his famous Californian swimming pool paintings, will go on sale next week in Dorchester and is expected to fetch up to £15,000.

The portrait, along with another Hockney sketch, a pencil drawing by Henri Matisse valued at up to £40,000, and etchings by Picasso and Lucian Freud worth between £30,000 and £25,000, have been owned by a private collector in Wiltshire since the 1970s, who is described by auctioneer Guy Schwinge as having “a refined eye”.